Improvement in fire-escapes



G. L. WHALE-Y & J'MR. HASSLER. Fire-Escape.

No. 198,720. Patented Dec. 25, 1877.

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GEORGE L. WHALEY, OF BACHELOR, D JOHN R. HASSLER,.OF SHAMROCK,

MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN Fl RE-ESCAPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,720, dat d Dec m r October 6, 18 77.

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that we, GEORGE LEE WHALEY,

State of Missouri, and JOHN RICHARDSON HASSLER, of Shamrock, in the county of Callaway and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Escapes, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front view of our improved device shown as applied to a building. Fig.

through the line so as, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved fire-escape which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive in manufacture, durable, always ready, and wholly out of the way.

The invention will first be described in connectionwith the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

The main part of the ladder, which we prefer to form by attaching rounds A to three parallel uprights, B,but which may be formed with only two uprights, B, is secured to the of windows, as shown in Fig. 1.

We preferjto make the ladder A B in sections for convenience in putting it up.

Between the tops of the lower windows and 25, 1877 application filed In case of fire, when the usual stairways' become---impassable, the persons in the upper rooms can pass out of the windows to the side parts G D E of the ladder, pass along said parts horizontally to the main part A B of said ladder, and descend by it to the ground.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the ladder A B, one or more side extensions, 0 D E,'and the rounds F on the window-sil1s, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE LEE WHALEY. JOHN RICHARDSON HASSLER.

Witnesses:

T. D. BISHOP, B. G. STEPHENS. 

